8.-7.

Appropriations for Consolidated Fund Services.

CLASS III.—POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT— continued.

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Item. 19 18-9. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES— continued. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 15 16 17 VOTE No. 14— continued. Compensation to Mrs. J. Longton, widow of Messenger Longton, under " The Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act, 1908" Compensation to widow of late Telegraph Lineman Whiteford, who was killed — payable under " The Workers' Compensation for Accidents Act, 1908 " Compensation under award of Arbitration Court to Mr. T. B. Baldwin, Wellington, telegraph lineman, for injuries sustained Compensation for determination of lease of post-office site at Wallsend Expenditure occasioned by fire in General Post Office block on 22nd May, 1908" Glenavy Post-office: Loss by fire—cash, postal notes, &c. Legal expenses Light, Fuel, and Water Lodging Allowances to Cadets and Cadettes ... Loss by burglary at Otira Post-office Medical expenses of C. H. Mathieson, post-office messenger, on account of injury sustained in the performance of duties Motor-lorry Service: Conveyance of mails at Wellington New Zealand's share of the cost of International Postal and Telegraph Bureaux, Berne, for the year 1907 Office Expenses Overtime Parcel-post Expenses Postal Inspectors'Travelling-expenses Post-marking machines for various offices Printing, Binding, &c. Purchase and Hire of Bicycles, and Allowances to Lettercarriers, &c, using their own Machines Rent of Premises — Rent of Parcels Post-office, Auckland, from 13th July, 1907, at £350 per annum. Rent of premises for Clearing-room, Wellington, from 15th July, 1907, at £550 per annum Rent of premises for Superintendent of Electric Lines Branch, Wellington, at £650 per annum .. Rent of premises for Parcels Office and Dead Letter Office, Wellington, at £460 per annum ... Rent of premises for Post-office, Lichfield Street, from 1st November, 1907, at £150 per annum... Rent of premises for Post-office, Upper Symonds Street, at £104 per annum, from 1st January, 1908 Rent of premises, for storage of material, &c, from 1st June, 1907, at £5 per week Rent of premises for Post-office Savings-bank, Wellington, at £1,000 per annum Repairs, Fittings, New Buildings, &c. Special Allowance to Telegraph Messengers during their First Year's Service Special allowance of 5s. per week to 122 telegraph message boys Stationery, &c. Temporary Officers, Letter-carriers, and Messengers Travelling, Removal, and Relieving Expenses Unforeseen expenditure incidental to the other items of the vote ... Uniform Clothing Whakarewarewa Post-office : Burglary £ 400 374 230 10 277 54 150 8 ,500 3 ,663 73 44 2,200 110 5,500 7,000 5,000 1,300 1,000 10 ,500 £ 2,500 35 3 ,524 4 ,700 1,420 1,586 15 ,000 8 ,000 8 ,000 1 ,000 2 ,900 5 108 ,553 Less estimated credits under section 42 of "The Public Revenues Act, 1908 " 6,500 Total —Vote No. 14 ... 102 ,051 L OF CLASS III £810,668